Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2313 View of Life and Death
Although the third brother has various problems, his loyalty to the British Empire is beyond doubt.

India is so unique that its way of fighting for independence is different from other countries. "Non-violent non-cooperation" means not resisting British colonization, but also not cooperating and not taking the initiative to create value, so that Britain cannot get any benefits from colonization. Sooner or later Will voluntarily abandon India.

Indians also really don't have a long memory.

During the last World War, in order to obtain support from India, Britain made a lot of promises to India, which made the Indians believe it.

After the war, when the Indians asked the British to fulfill their promises, the British said that it was just a British joke, and the Indians were completely wiped out.

After the outbreak of World War I, Britain repeated its old tricks and gave India countless promises.

The Indians still believed in it. Not only did they send millions of troops to the war, but they also gave the British Empire unreserved material support in the face of the Japanese invasion.

This is no longer explained by "loyalty", it is simply stupid.

Look at how Australia is doing. As a country of the Commonwealth of Nations, Australia has almost publicly turned against the British Empire, without saving any face for the suzerain country.

After Winston left Australia, the Australian federal government and the Southern African federal government signed a security cooperation agreement, requesting the southern African military to help Australia train the army and allowing southern African troops to station in Australia.

Southern Africa has made a public commitment to keep Australia safe.

Australia is responsible for the expenses incurred by the southern African troops stationed in Australia, and will gradually replace the British-style equipment of the Australian army with southern African-style equipment.

For this agreement, the UK reacted strongly. Some members of Congress publicly declared that the UK should use force to protect its own rights and interests and take back Australian iron ore from southern Africans.

This proposal must have been welcomed by British Steel, but the British government did not dare to do so.

After the British government signed the agreement with Australia and Southern Africa, it only issued a non-painful statement that it would not accept the agreement, and there was no other statement.

The British Empire now depends on the support of southern Africa to win the war.

Members of Congress can speak out to win votes.

Officials will not go crazy with MPs, at least at this stage, turning against southern Africa and Australia will do no harm to the UK.

You can't lose the big because of the small.

Halifax has now completely become a civilian port. As Canada's most important port on the Atlantic coast, Halifax is extremely busy. There are countless merchant ships traveling between the British mainland and southern Africa every day.

From what Winston learned, there was far more commerce between Halifax and southern Africa than with England.

This made Winston very angry. It would be fine if Australia wanted to rebel, but would Canada also want to betray the United Kingdom?

Then the Commonwealth of Nations is really in name only.

"The economy between us and southern Africa is highly complementary. Southern Africa needs industrial raw materials from Canada, and we need commodities from southern Africa. The key is that commodities from southern Africa are cheaper, reliable in quality, and advanced in performance—" William King's words almost choked Winston to death.

The goods that Canada needs can also be provided by the UK.

So William King said: The key is that the goods in southern Africa are of high quality and low price.

This goes back to the most basic trading principles.

As the first country to start the industrial revolution, British industry must be very developed.

It is a pity that the development of the United Kingdom did not last for too long. It was surpassed by the United States and southern Africa successively. Even Germany came from behind. This is not counting Russia, which does not disclose various industrial data.

Britain's gradual abandonment of overseas colonies has a lot to do with the decline of British industry.

The greatest value of a colony lies in the cheap industrial raw materials and the dumping grounds where they can get whatever they want.

The reasons for the decline of British industry are complex, a large part of which is due to rising costs and declining competitiveness, which led British businessmen to focus more on trade rather than industrial manufacturing.

In this way, the problem arises, the same is to sell raw materials, why don't the colonies sell them themselves, and have to let the British merchants cut a knife in the middle.

Another more important reason is that important raw materials in British overseas colonies, such as oil along the Persian Gulf coast and iron ore in Australia, were not controlled by British merchants, but in the hands of southern African capital.

This is very embarrassing.

"Leon, have you ever thought about a question? Southern Africa is no longer a country dominated by Anglo-Saxons. In the words of southern Africans: If you are not of my race, your heart must be different—" Winston said to Southern Africa. Culture is well understood.

It is precisely for this reason that Winston has become more and more worried about southern Africa. Since the outbreak of this world war, it has even risen to the level of fear.

The speed of development in southern Africa is too fast for Europeans.

The "American speed" that Americans are proud of pales in comparison to the "South African speed".

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, didn't you create this problem by yourself?" William King once again made Winston want to vomit blood.

This really can not blame others.

The autonomy of southern Africa was approved by the United Kingdom. When southern Africa became independent, Winston personally went to southern Africa to congratulate him.

The proportion of Chinese in southern Africa is indeed very high, but the original immigration policy was formulated by the British colonial government.

During the two world wars, countless Chinese joined the army and fought bloody battles for the continuation of human civilization.

Now that the war is not over, it's too ugly to think about killing the donkey.

"Now is not the time for us to hold accountable, but when the war is over, whether the southern Africans or we Anglo-Saxons will rule the world." · President Jin has nothing to say.

"Even if the world is ruled by southern Africans, it won't be worse than it is now—" William King's words surprised Winston, and he was quite Anglo-Saxon.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, you and Locke are old friends. You should know Locke better than I do. At least Locke is not the next Adolf." William King's attitude towards southern Africa has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with ten years ago.

When William King first became prime minister of Canada a decade ago, he didn't take kindly to southern Africa.

Over time, it turns out that the arrival of the Atlantic Fleet did not turn Halifax into a colony in southern Africa, but instead brought prosperity to the entire province of Nova Scotia, which is now the Canadian economy The most dynamic province, under the management of southern Africans, Halifax is not only economically prosperous, but also has good security, complete infrastructure, and residents live and work in peace and contentment. The key is to stay away from the threat of war.

For William King, the last point was especially felt.

Southern Africa brought Canada a sense of security that even the British Empire could not guarantee.

If you look at it this way, whoever leads the world has nothing to do with Canada.

Anyway, no matter how you count, it is not Canada's turn to lead the world.

Although the white people in southern Africa have lost their privileges, they have not been excluded by the main population.

This is the Utopia described in Utopia.

"Maybe Locke is not, but what about the future leaders of Southern Africa?" Winston had too many things to worry about, and he wanted to take care of things a hundred years later.

William King was helpless, which didn't make sense at all.

"Winston, I just want to ask you one question. Would our world be better if we were replaced by Americans?" William King did not follow Winston's thinking. It's hard to say what will happen, Canada will definitely become a colony of the United States.

At last Winston was rendered speechless.

Winston was well aware of what the Americans had done.

Don't listen to how well the Americans say it. Winston himself has been a reporter, and the Americans' routines are very clear.

There was a war between the United Kingdom and the United States. During the American War of Independence, the British and Canada joined forces to burn Washington. Can the Americans not hold grudges?

Going deeper, in the past hundred years, almost every economic crisis in the world has erupted from the US stock market. Investors in European countries have been cut off by the Americans as leeks, and Winston himself has also been cheated. It's always a pain in the ass to lose everything.

In the evening, there was a dinner as usual. Garfield, the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, was in Walvis Bay, and the chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet, Jackson Marshall Jr., attended the banquet.

Jackson Marshall Jr.'s father is the old Jackson Marshall who served as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Ocean Fleet. He is now the only admiral in southern Africa, and he is highly respected.

Old Jackson Marshall had served in the Royal Navy. After graduating from the Edward Naval Academy, Young Jackson Marshall had studied at the Royal Naval Academy, which gave Winston a natural affinity for Little Jackson Marshall.

To Winston's regret, the old Jackson Marshall may still have feelings for the British Empire, and the young Jackson Marshall has become a thoroughly southern African.

"The task of the Atlantic Fleet is heavy. Most of our main warships have been transferred to the Pacific Ocean to participate in the war with the Japanese combined fleet. The few remaining light cruisers and destroyers are also responsible for heavy escort tasks. You have also seen it. Now there are only a few old warships under maintenance in the military port, and the other warships are performing missions, and our strength is still too weak to support two-line operations." The pony is as low-key as the old one, even if the strength of southern Africa Low-key is no longer allowed.

Southern African navies are notoriously low-key.

As a signatory of the "Washington Naval Treaty" and the "London Naval Treaty", Southern Africa did not pursue battleships and put all its strength on the construction of aircraft carriers, which once became the laughing stock of the Royal Navy.

As a result, the war broke out, and the Southern African Navy completely turned around. The Royal Navy laughed at how ruthless the Southern African Navy was, and now it hurts so much.

Xiao Ma's meaning is very clear, the Atlantic Fleet is now too busy to take care of itself, the Royal Navy should ask for more blessings.

"The German warships are all blocked by us in the naval port, and they have no ability to enter the Atlantic Ocean. How heavy is your task?" Winston was very dissatisfied, and the southern Africans hated each other more than one.

"All? Are you sure?" Xiao Ma was not polite, and the British Prime Minister did not send money to the Southern African Navy, so why should he spoil you.

Everything is definitely impossible. Germany's large surface ships really cannot get out, and submarine activities are still rampant. Nearly [-] tons of merchant ships from allied countries are sunk by German submarines every month.

The ubiquitous German submarines pose a huge threat to allied merchant ships.

Before Britain declared war on Germany, southern Africa had already implemented the escort system to minimize the loss of merchant ships.

Britain was slow to respond in this regard. The escort system was only implemented after the outbreak of the war. The loss of merchant ships was huge. Half of the merchant ships lost by the allies were British merchant ships.

This has a lot to do with the geographical location of the UK.

No matter how rampant German submarine activities are, they cannot break away from the protection scope of the submarine base, and can only fight within a certain range. The pressure is mainly on the British side.

Southern Africa is like Europe, and Halifax is also outside the operational range of German submarines. Southern African merchant ships travel from Halifax to Walvis Bay, avoiding the operational range of German submarines as much as possible, which minimizes being attacked possible.

"Scattered German submarines, can they pose a threat to the Atlantic Fleet?" Winston was exaggerating. No matter how tight the blockade of the Royal Fleet was, there must be fish that slipped through the net.

Southern Africa is not only powerful in aircraft carriers, it is also powerful in small surface ships, such as light cruisers and destroyers. A light cruiser with sea-to-shore attack capability.

The cost of light cruisers is very low, and a dozen light cruisers can be easily built for the cost of just one battleship.

The role of a battleship is far less than that of a dozen light cruisers.

Taking France as an example, the cost of Richelieu was 12.27 billion francs.

The light cruiser "Emile Bertin" in the same period cost only 7200 million francs.

The cost of the "Emile Bertin" light cruiser is much higher than that of the light cruiser of the same level in southern Africa. The standard displacement of this cargo is 5 metric tons, and the full-load displacement is 886 metric tons. According to the standards of southern Africa, it can be classified as a heavy cruiser. up.

The armament system of "Emile Bertin" is three triple-mounted 152mm main guns. Southern African light cruisers usually only have one main gun. The French extended the idea of ​​​​battleships to light cruisers, but there are not many anti-aircraft weapons. , is simply putting the cart before the horse.

Now the French Navy is planning to modify the "Emile Bertin", adding more anti-aircraft guns and removing the torpedo launcher.

However, this plan has not been implemented, because the French navy is now at a critical moment.

(End of this chapter)